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Poster:	mccown	Date:	December 20, 2005 05:49:58am
Forum:	web	Subject:	Reconstructing websites when you don't have a backup

Some of you may be interested in a paper that we just finished which uses the Internet Archive and search engine caches (Google, MSN, Yahoo) to reconstruct lost websites.

"Reconstructing Websites for the Lazy Webmaster"
By Frank McCown, Joan A. Smith, Michael L. Nelson, and Johan Bollen
Computer Science Dept - Old Dominion University
Technical Report. 2005.

http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.IR/0512069

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Poster:	gojomo	Date:	January 09, 2006 05:36:58am
Forum:	web	Subject:	Re: Reconstructing websites when you don't have a backup

Aaron Swartz has made a similar IA-only utility, 'arcget'. See:

http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/arcget/

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Poster:	mccown	Date:	January 10, 2006 11:38:39pm
Forum:	web	Subject:	Re: Reconstructing websites when you don't have a backup

Warrick is available for download here:

http://www.cs.odu.edu/~fmccown/research/lazy/warrick.html